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[TPU] Foxconn Makes Flaming Blade X58 Series Official

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Pictured last month as merely a low-end variant of the Blood Rage X58 series (read here), Foxconn Flaming Blade X58 has emerged as a product series in itself, with two sub-variants: Flaming Blade X58 and Flaming Blade X58 GTI. The former being the base-model, while the latter is a scaled-down, even cheaper one.

Both motherboards feature an identical feature set for the most part: Three DDR3-1800 DIMM slots, two PCI-E x16 slots, near-identical board layouts, etc. The differences start with the GTI variant featuring simpler component cooling, with individual heatsinks over the chipset and VRM areas. The base-model has a heat-pipe based cooler. Another set of differences are present with the boards' back-panel and the connectors on offer: the GTI variant lacks two eSATA connectors and an Ethernet controller (although the picture suggests otherwise). Both models will cater to the $200 market price-point.

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So the difference(s) between Blood Rage and this new 'Flaming Blade' series is:

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Instead of four PCI-Express x16 connectors on the other variants, Flaming Blade makes do with only two, with a PCI-E x4 slot added to the mix. There is a notable amount of changes with the placement of connectors and headers. The board reduces the use of red in colour-coding the connectors and slots. The SONAR X-Fi sound card gets replaced by onboard audio, while the rest of the back-panel remains the same in terms of connectors.
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Both models will cater to the $200 market price-point.
Now that is a pretty good selling point. Stripped down Bloodrage at that price? Good work Foxconn.
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Chunky_Chimp
Original source. OP didn't have it. Now then... Flaming Blade, or Blood Rage? Gaah! Foxconn is making this hard on me. Note, though, that the Flaming Blade GTI drops SLI support, not just the eSATA ports and flat northbridge cooler.
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slothfish
Once you get down to the GTI series it's not worth it imo. You can get a much better x58 mobo for around the same price. They pretty much took away all the cool features of the bloodrage, minus the colors of course.
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RAFFY
lol FLAMMING boards huh?
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